Not to mention keeping copper mines nationalised being an acceptable expression of liberal policy,

Murdering labour union members: Acceptable expression of liberal policy.

That was only the overture. They rounded up all who had supported Allende in the National Stadium and I believe most of them were killed. We have family friends who just avoided being included. The husband was a TV news man and the wife was an artist. They had been Allende supporters and fortunately had been in Venezuela for one of the wife's exhibitions when the coup occurred.

Pinochet basically blew out the brains of all he could find who had a social conscience. I had known about Kissenger and Friedman. Guess Hayek makes it an unholy trinity. Makes one wish there were a Hell in which they could rot. Instead, all three get Nobel Prizes, Kissenger the Peace Prize. No evil deed goes unrewarded.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."